Sunday March 4, 2012



Sunday March 4, 2012

PATC Trail Patrol

One-On-One Training

Partially cloudy, high 30's to low 40's, virtually no ice or snow on the trail.   Heard tree frogs(not peepers) croaking up in the trees along Weakley Hollow Fire Road.

OLD RAG NEWS/CONCERNS FOR VISITORS

• There is new local dog which likes to go walk-about.   It is a young border collie please do not try to take it home or bring it down off the mountain unless it is clearly hurt(not just sleeping).   It will make its way back home before sunset.    While SNP(Shenandoah National Park) has a leash law and  dogs are not allowed at all on Old Rag,....Madison County does not have a leash law.
• There are no longer portable bathrooms located in the old Old Rag upper lot.  There are still portable bathrooms located in the Old Rag parking lot and there is a mouldering privy located near Old Rag Shelter.  If you use the woods please make sure you know how to make appropriate cat-holes.
• How to poop in the woods  http://amountaintophigh.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-poop-in-woods.html
• I am seeing a lot more jury-rigged fire rings.   These and the fires in them are not allowed in SNP!    Backcountry fires are not allowed in SNP unless they are in fireplaces constructed by SNP!
• Daylight saving time happens this next weekend.



Mark H. the day's One-On-One trainee.

Looking down the Saddle Trail very late in the day.

Sunset cliffs in the late day sun.

Sunset from the last view point just above CCC Stairs